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Brits are a tough people and they are used to it. Being essentially on an island means you have to be self-sufficient to survive. That's the way it was a long time ago, and is perhaps the very reason Brits became the number-one superpower. They had military superiority. Built some friggin big boats. Then came the industrial revolution. They make their own cars and buses. Harrier Jets, even. Not to mention the Brits gave us radar. In fact the whole realm of radio and microwave communications comes from a few people like James Clerk Maxwell. He was a scotsman. And you want to make it sound like they need Europe, they need Germany to function?

Or we could use them upon ourselves!

I started noticing this a few years ago. Canadians are a people who don't know how to sing their own national anthem. I don't know the anthem anymore because they keep changing it. There's a version with a few lines of french near the end. I think that was dropped after a while but don't know. .... Next up: "God keep our land..." You know it cannot endure with these liberals in charge.

Majority vote wins. Pretty sure that's how democracy works.

Regional breakup? I was talking about Brexit. Nothing regional about that. The British people chose to sever ties with the EU. That means they are no longer beholden to the whims of the EU Council. Giving the finger to the Germans. The old-boys in pubs out in those remote sheep-farming communities all raised a glass of lukewarm brown ale, and bellowed out "God Save the Queen".

Hahaha, when I invoked globalists and their supporters, you came back with "we". Now we certainly know where you stand. Not that there was any doubt in my mind, of course. Anecdotally, while we fret in our armchairs about Britain I know someone who's here from England for a 3- month work term, he was surprised at how expensive our food is. Anecdotal I know, but then what have I got to gain by shitting you?

So I guess dropping to a number two score after the world wars is not good enough. America may also soon be displaced from the top position. British are well-known as complainers, and to keep their government in check. Again wish Canada would take a page from that. Otherwise, Brexit vote was all good. The people got to speak out. What I see is democracy. Globalists and their supporters are constantly invoking Putin as the bogeyman because he won't play into their hands. It's what Brexit and the Ukraine war are largely about. That's why we see the viceral media attacks. Same goes for the attacks on Trump. Because the three represent a different group of wealthy elites.

I see Brexit as an act of British patriotism. Brexit takes a stand against the massive federalism imposed by Germany, the powerhouse of the EU. The people spoke out and no matter what you might think of it, there was enough of them to win the vote. By separating from EU, British are putting their own country first. That's right fella - It's about making Britain great again. And yes it will cost more, at least for a while, but by choosing Brexit they have said they are willing to pay that price for the future of Britain. Their position is weak because of globalization and too many years of dependency on the larger economic union. Not unlike when a person is an alcoholic or drug addicted, they must go through withdrawal when they quit. Detoxification can be painful, but you've got to make it through that. Britain was able to go it alone before the EU. Wasn't that long ago they were #1 in the world. Outsourcing and remodeling into a high-tech society, where you produce nothing also leaves you open to military attack. If you want to go to war, you need a certain industrial infrastructure.

If only we could have such nationalism at this time. Then we could remove the traitorous globalist Trudeau, as Brits have done.

Speaking of plastic grocery bags, we always used our as garbage bags. They were just the right size for the container, so it was not a single-use plastic. Now we just buy a box of plastic bags for the trash. We throw out the same amount of plastic bags as we always do. Most stores do not offer paper bags at the cash, which I would pay for. Another government-led initiative for the environment that is useless.

Different with the AG.

Pretty sure it stands for North Atlantic. But who am I to judge

Debate forums are kind of exclusive thing. No one else I know does this. We must all be "special people".

It's not that affirmative action isn't necessary, you're wrong again. Some kind of affirmative action is needed to help what I call "the disempowered" in our society. Another word might be poor people. But it must not include skin colour, otherwise a wealthy black doctor's family gets the advantages, while a poor white family is not eligible.

Yes but it's all good, as long as it helps the climate virtue signallers sleep well at night. I'm talking about the ones who have a sign on their forehead, says do not disturve

The model for privacy should be the same as before. Teachers should not be privy to any secrets regarding a child in school without parents awarenesd, unless there is a child safety issue such as abusive parent at home. Once the child raises a personal issue like this to a teacher, they need to bring in a professional councillor. It should be out of the teacher's hands.

It may produce a very small reduction in carbon doing that. Not even a drop in the bucket, in grand scheme of things. For that the consumer carries the brunt of the financial burden.

Indeed it will in little herbie's mind. He will sleep better by the virtue signalling. Then he like all the other liberals can polish his halo.

Here are the more detailed allegations: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/the-pierre-elliott-trudeau-foundation-controversy-explained-transcript-1.6812774 AYME POISSON: And I just will say for clarity, I know this donation was initially going to be 200 K to the foundation, but then they ended up coming through with 140 K, and that the money was actually part of a much larger donation, right, to to some other places too. CATHERINE CULLEN: It was supposed to be in total $1,000,000. So a big chunk of it to the Trudeau Foundation, as you said, another big chunk of it to the Universite du Montreal, where apparently at Trudeau used to teach. Also, we should say that according to some of their reporting, we're now seeing the university didn't get all of that money either. And it too, is asking some questions about what's up here. JAYME POISSON: All right. So that is what happened way back in 2016. I know there's been some pretty scathing criticisms recently about why the board of the Trudeau Foundation at the time would have ever accepted this donation, considering how it was embroiled in the cash for access scandal, considering that the opposition was criticizing it in the House of Commons. But things do die down. They obviously did accept it and things do die down. And then the controversy, I guess it's fair to say it gets a second life after the Globe and Mail and Global News start breaking all these stories that detail an alleged influence campaign mounted by the Chinese government to influence the 2019 and 2021 elections. A big allegation here is that the Chinese government wanted a minority Liberal government in 2021 and to see some conservative candidates defeated. You and I have talked about this on the podcast before, and we've also talked about how there's been reporting that this influence campaign began well before the 2019 elections. So there is this renewed scrutiny of the $140,000 donation to the Trudeau Foundation, and the Globe starts linking the donation to the wider alleged Chinese government influence campaign and just flesh that out for me a little bit more. How do they do that? CATHERINE CULLEN: It gets worse because according to this reporting in The Globe and Mail, and you referenced it before, Jayme, the Globe and Global have done all this work on Chinese interference in the globe, in particular, speaking to a national security source who they have not named, someone who they say is at risk of prosecution for sharing some of this information publicly. The source tells the Globe and Mail that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS captured a conversation in 2014 between an unnamed commercial attache at one of China's consulates in Canada and that billionaire. Now, the source says that the diplomat tells Zhang to donate the million dollars to the Trudeau Foundation and the university and that the Chinese government is going to reimburse him for the entire amount. Of course, as we said, all of this is happening under this backdrop that we understand through reporting in the Globe and the Globe and Mail that China wants to see the liberals in power because they think they'll be less tough on Beijing.

China already got caught donating several hundred-thousand to the Trudeau election campaign, which they quietly returned but only once they were outed. 2. Trudeau is a racist towards blacks (numerous blackface wearing incidents from his youth to adulthood) and has demonstrated a disparaging view towards the women around him. He is not truly woke, in that he doesn't really care (for example his abuse of the natives) but he uses it to further his political image.

Trudeau Senior (Pierre) was noted for his belief in using dictatorship to rule a people, and for giving ordinary Canadians the finger while on tour through Canada's small towns. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Anyway was a cool song and I saw them live once when I was a teenager. They played our highschool, was around 1985 or so. You probably weren't even born yet.

Calling me a fool is all you have.

Again the situation is incomprehensible, in that Canada refuses to take its cues from our powerful neighbours, the UK and USA as we have done in the past. Instead we are headed on a self-destructive path as a country. I blame our PM, and believe it's intentional. A post-national state has no history, no culture. There must be nothing to inspire national pride.

I don't see it that way, but I do agree that letting people get away with crime and get out of jail just by virtue of the fact they are a visible minority, is both stupid and racist. As a non-racist Canadian I expect courts to follow the letter of the law, but also that judges look at each person as an individual, and are free to make decisions on a case-by-case basis before determining a person's sentence or early release. Determining the sentence by their race is racism, pure and simple. Not only is it dumb, since it would allow foul perpetrators to get off lightly and then can do it again but is like imposing a mandatory sentencing condition upon the court which the judge must obey regardless of their own opinion. So in addition to the blatantly racist logic of your views, mandatory sentencing takes power away from judges and puts it into the hands of government officials, and it doesn't even matter on the particulars. Consequently the "non-visible" person would do more jail time, because of his skin.